Do you know what an abacus is?
It’s essentially an old-school bead-based calculator. You move a bead to one of two sides to keep the tally. The implication of this tool is that the total number of beads stays the same—they just get moved around within the frame.
Could the abacus be some sort of analogy for our own personal energy metrics—that what we give is taken from us?
As someone who used to ignore messages and signs that I was overextending, who used to “do it all,” and who suffered from no small amount of productivity addiction, take it from me: your decisions count, they cost, and they keep you stuck….